Sale 1760
New York
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29 March 2006
Price realised
USD 28,800
Estimate
A RARE WUCAI DOUBLE-GOURD VASE 18TH CENTURY The lower bulb painted with two ferocious four-clawed dragons, one yellow and green, the other underglaze blue, confronted on an iron-red flaming pearl amidst dense clouds, while a third dragon pursues another flaming pearl amidst further clouds on the upper bulb 15¾ in. (40 cm.) high, wood stand
Provenance
J. T. Tai & Co., Inc., New York, January 1965.
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